Irresponsible dog owners can face jail for allowing animals to foul areas in front of houses

[webfact]

Irresponsible dog owners can face jail for allowing animals to foul areas in front of houses

 

Picture: Daily New

 

Thai media Daily News reported on the issue of irresponsible dog and cat owners who allow their pets to foul areas in front of neighbors' houses.

 

Quoting a lawyer they said that owners could face jail time and heavy fines even if they cleaned up the mess.

 

Laywer Kertphon Kaewkert said that if it was proven that owners allowed their pets to defecate in front of neighbors' houses they could be fined 10,000 baht or jailed for a month or both.

 

Even if they cleaned it up they could be jailed as it caused annoyance to others.

 

Fines were less in some other areas and there were differences between private estates and public areas according to the regulations.

 

Reports should be made with evidence to local police who would refer the matter to the courts.

 

Barking dogs could result in fines and requests to remove the dog.

 

In a related story Dr Sathit Pratchaya-ariyakul of the Thai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said that owners must take responsibility for dogs and cats according to the law.

 

He said that barking dogs could result in jail of one month and fines of 2,000 baht.

 

Letting an animal pooh outside someone's house was 500 baht, he said.

 

Leaving the corpse of a pet outside someone's house would result in a 5,000 baht fine.

 

He said that there were 5 deaths of people from diseases related to dogs in 2015 and six deaths in 2016.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-02-12

[jvs]

Bring it on!!Can't wait!!Oh yeah will never happen here.

[Darcula]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

Reports should be made with evidence to local police who would refer the matter to the courts.

Translation = please don't bother.

[overherebc]

A couple of my neighbours will be bankrupt in a month.

[doctormann]

Maybe we'll see dog and cat style Mamypoko diapers on sale pretty soon!

[overherebc]

9 minutes ago, Darcula said:

Translation = please don't bother.

Physical or pictorial evidence?

[Moo71]

Oh yes

 

Government officials responsible for soi dogs,

 

Jail them all

[faraday]

4 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Physical or pictorial evidence?

Scratch & Sniff evidence....

 

[kelboy]

Im in a village 

where all the  dogs run riot, so this will be fun. What about the cows that come past every day?

[Orton Rd]

All we need now is something done about millions of soi dogs, with NO owners to take to court

[wgdanson]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

if it was proven that owners allowed their pets to defecate in front of neighbors' houses they could be fined 10,000 baht or jailed for a month or both.

The a bit later in the article it says 500 Bht.

[cmsally]

I'll start training the cats right away !!

[Thian]

My neighbour in the moobaan is a policeman, he just opens his gate so the dog can go out and walk on the roads and drag all binbags onto the roads.

 

The whole neighbourhood knows it's his dog but since they all have barking dogs they won't complain. Very annoying but at least they don't attack people like the soidogs outside the moobaan do.

[Thailand]

Article44 and it's all solved.

 

Need to create a committee to kick the shit around though, 

[wildewillie89]

Haven't all these laws been in place for years? No one makes official complaints/has evidence so nothing ever comes from it. For it to be more successful they need to give greater fine powers to the municipality staff rather than police dealing with it. Make it clear that the fines will be receipted and where the money will go (back into the community). 

[Silom]

[metisdead]

A troll post has been removed.

[chickenslegs]

23 minutes ago, Silom said:

Strange that the "no poop" sign is in English.

 

Thai dogs can't read English.

[geriatrickid]

I like the use of a non Thailand location to illustrate. 

Epic,

I can tell it's not Thailand because;

-there is no garbage strewn about

- the  walkways are passable and not blocked

-well kept homes

- maintained vegetation

- no low hanging wires

- Appropriate street lighting

- Chimneys  and proper ventilation of rooves and  toilet waste pipes.

[gunderhill]

MUCH better irresponsible dog  owners  fined for letting their dogs  run loose on any roads, save way more lives than slipping  over on their s h i t e.

Also definition of owner is ANYONE who feeds a dog.

Edited February 12, 2018 by gunderhill

[Nienke]

Why is it always with these things that it flips from one extreme to the other? 

Yes it is good that the government becomes stricter. Yes pet owners should shows more responsibility concerning their pets. 
But ... pets do poop and dogs do bark. You can't make them stop doing so. 
Threatening with fines and jail-time even when the owner DOES show responsibility by picking up the poop right after the dog did his business?  Or when a dog alarm-barks but immediately stops when  the owner tells him to (because that *responsible* owner has actually trained his dog)? That is completely over-the-top and a recipe for disaster. 
 

[stanleycoin]

Bit early for 1st April jokes.

 

Thais cleaning up there dogs poo   

 Think a few people  should lay off the drugs.

 

 

[Thian]

54 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

I like the use of a non Thailand location to illustrate. 

Epic,

I can tell it's not Thailand because;

-there is no garbage strewn about

- the  walkways are passable and not blocked

-well kept homes

- maintained vegetation

- no low hanging wires

- Appropriate street lighting

- Chimneys  and proper ventilation of rooves and  toilet waste pipes.

I had the same thoughts, but it might be Hyde park in BKK.

 

The fact that those houses don't have a fence around them makes me think it's not in Thailand.

[Thian]

53 minutes ago, Nienke said:

pets do poop and dogs do bark

If you tell the dog to shut up everytime it barks it will finally stop doing it.

 

If you don't do anything it thinks it's good to do so and will never stop.

[jak2002003]

2 hours ago, kelboy said:

Im in a village 

where all the  dogs run riot, so this will be fun. What about the cows that come past every day?

Yes.. there are often huge piles of buffalo poop in the street...  but I suspect these kind of animals will be classed as farm animals and not pets.

 

As for the cats.. how would the owner stop their cats pooping in other peoples gardens... unless they keep the cats in a cage?

 

 

[Ceruhe]

Get your shit sorted out with the soi dogs first.

 

And good luck for cat "owners". Cats own people.

[metisdead]

An offensive post has been removed. 

[YetAnother]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

they could be jailed as it caused annoyance to others.

half of thailand could be accused of that

[greenchair]

Thank goodness. 

My neighbour drops dog bits outside my house and teaches his dogs to shit there. 

He doesn't even bother cleaning it up. 

I have talked to many thai, when they have any complaint about something, someone with a dog will start shiting outside the house. 

It's disgusting. Disrespectful and nasty. 

Put those shit dog owners in their own dogshit house. 

[greenchair]

51 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Yes.. there are often huge piles of buffalo poop in the street...  but I suspect these kind of animals will be classed as farm animals and not pets.

 

As for the cats.. how would the owner stop their cats pooping in other peoples gardens... unless they keep the cats in a cage?

 

 

Just like you can teach a cat or dog not to shit inside. you can also teach a dog/cat where they can shit. 

If a dog or cat is repeatedly shitting outside your house, there's a good chance the owner has been training them to shit there. Simply placing a few biscuits in the place will get the desired result.